Benjamin Suffoletto

Benjamin and Linda Suffoletto
would have celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary on March 3.

The couple, both 43, were the
parents of an 18-year-old son, Zachary.

Benjamin Joseph Suffoletto Jr.
was raised in Woonsocket and graduated from Woonsocket High School and the
Hall Institute in Pawtucket. He was an architect for Vision III Architects in
Providence for four years, and had also worked for McKenzie Architects in
Pawtucket.

Linda Dee (Sousa) Suffoletto, a
1977 graduate of Cumberland High School, was a revenue officer for the state
Department of Labor and Training for the last 11 years.

The Suffolettos were members of
the Connecticut-based Starlight Trucker Club.

Benjamin J. Suffoletto Jr., 43, was an architect with primary
responsibility for work on the Ruby Tuesday restaurants around the United
States, and on the last few days of his life he worked on the design of a new
Ruby Tuesday in Portland, Maine, as well as a Cheesecake Factory in Long
Island, N.Y.

"Ben was especially good at ongoing, repeat projects for corporate clients
with multiple projects in different stages of development. He loved the high
intensity, high energy effort of that," said William Gray, a principal at the
25-member firm of Vision III Architects, in Providence, where Suffoletto had
worked for six years.

Suffoletto also helped to design the Legal Seafoods restaurants and was
instrumental in changing the appearance of CVS pharmacies -- from a
nondescript storefront "to what looks like your neighborhood pharmacy," Gray
said.

A gregarious guy, Suffoletto was at the center of picnics and parties,
rallying co-workers inside and outside the office. His favorite holiday was
Halloween, Gray said, and he always took time off from work to convert his
home into an elaborate haunted house.

At lunchtime, colleagues would often find him at the company lunch table,
spinning a story about a recent trip to the Yankees' training camp, or some
new sports collectible he had found, or what he called "the hair bands" whose
music he loved. Great White was one of his favorites.

Born in Woonsocket, Suffoletto attended Woonsocket High, and studied
mechanical engineering and architecture at Hall's Institute in Pawtucket. He
and his wife, Linda, and son, Zachary, had lived in Chepachet for the past 10
years.

Linda Suffoletto, who was with him at The Station Thursday evening, is in
critical condition at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.